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Rights-based approach to development transforms a major international NGO
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Fighting Poverty Together is the name of ActionAid’s (a British aid agency) rights-based approach to development. ActionAid introduced several changes in the way it functions to reduce dependence on child sponsorship, decentralise its internal management and simplify its organisational structure. But has this brought about any real changes at the grassroots level?DocumentReport for span on the human rights’ violations of the ragpicker children
Consortium for Street Children, 2004This paper illustrates the ways in which the rights of ragpicker children in India are violated by the government and other sectors of Indian society.DocumentNepali women trafficked for sex work in India
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005It is estimated that up to 7,000 Nepali women and girls are trafficked – transported through deception, exploitation or abduction – for sex work in India each year, and that 200,000 Nepalis are working in the sex industry in India.DocumentChild labour in India: a health and human rights perspective
The Lancet, 2003This article, published in the Lancet, reports on a study by the Physicians for Human Rights Child Rights Group which investigated the health of children working in hybrid cottonseed fields in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. The study found that the majority of children surveyed were in debt bondage to pay off a family loan or advance.Pages
